2-3 FB Farmer fight

 The president of the largest U.S. farm organization says farmers and ranchers are more productive than ever - but aren’t getting the credit they’re due. Playing off the Occupy Wall Street movement and its contention that the richest one-percent in society owe everyone else - Bob Stallman of the American Farm Bureau Federation reminded AFBF members that...We are the 1% that is producing food and fiber for the other 99% and our success makes everything else in our great nation possible Including the pitching of tents and the shouting of protest slogans.

Stallman asserted that U.S. agriculture is the envy of the world - noting that farm productivity here has increased by nearly 50-percent during the past three decades. “In spite of devastating  effects of drought, storms and floods and affecting farmers and ranchers in some parts of the country, US agriculture is in good shape